Feb-03-07 Valentin Arbakov 
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| oneguy: I met him once in one of the World Open. (it was either 94, 95 or somewhere there). He was IM at that time. I saw him play hundreds of blitz games against many opponents. He was giving GMs (GM Blatny for example) time odds (2 to 4) and crushing him 90% of games! Unforgettable memory! |
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May-19-06 Rybka (Computer)
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| oneguy: the guy's book I was talking about
isn't the official book of Rybka. The official book is by Jeroen
Noomen in .ctg (ie. Chessbase/Fritz) format. The loud mouth's name is
Dr.Wael Deeb whose book for Rybka is in Areana format Rybka.abk. Avoid
this loud mouth's book. Rybka would be (I |
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Mar-18-06 Hydra (Computer)
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| oneguy: OhioChessFan <Yes, the great sportsmanship of repeatedly referring to an opening book of a "maximum 10 moves", and then programming in a novelty on the 14th move? I refer you to my post of October 27, 2005 on this page: Hydra vs Adams, 2005> Where did you get the idea that the ... |
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Jun-28-05 Adams - Hydra Match (2005)
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| oneguy: Hydra isn't a "poor program." The hardware (FPGA chess chips are part of Hydra). Anyone can beat Hydra, Fritz, any other computer, or Kasparo and Fischer, if he is allowed to use computers and move pieces on the
computer. Nickel was using the computers to analyze. Without that, he ... |
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Jun-28-05 Adams vs Hydra, 2005
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| oneguy: Yes, the hardware did evulation in every position in DB and Hydra without slowing down the rest of search. You can look that up |
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Jun-25-05 Adams vs Hydra, 2005
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| oneguy: Chips for sale? Hydra "chips" are not commercially available. I don't think anyone can afford 32 cluster computer with specifically programmed 32 FPGA cards. They didn't play the match to "sell chips." |
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Kibitzing
